Sleepy Hollow Cemetery

Sleepy Hollow Cemetery, incorporated in 1849, spans 90 acres and is the final resting place of Washington Irving, Andrew Carnegie, Walter Chrysler, Elizabeth Arden, and William Rockefeller. Irving's 1820 short story "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow" was set in the adjacent Old Dutch Church burying ground. The cemetery was renamed at Irving's request and was added to the National Register of Historic Places in 2009.

Thanks to "The Legend of Sleepy Hollow," this cemetery is considered one of the most haunted places in the world. The Headless Horseman, said to be a Hessian soldier decapitated by a cannonball during the Revolutionary War, rides through searching for his head. The "Bronze Lady," a statue gazing at Civil War general Samuel Thomas's tomb, is said to weep real tears - visitors claim to have felt them. Bright orbs dance around Washington Irving's gravesite, flitting among the surrounding mausoleums. During October, the village swells with tourists seeking the legendary horseman, and nighttime lantern tours reveal more than history.